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The development of diffusion-based generative models over the past decade has largely proceeded independently of progress in representation learning.
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Momentum contrast for unsupervised visual representation learning
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Denoising diffusion probabilistic models
Jonathan Ho, Ajay Jain, and Pieter Abbeel · 2020
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Supervised contrastive learning
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High-resolution image synthesis with latent diffusion models
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Dinov2: Learning robust visual features without supervision
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Scalable diffusion models with transformers
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Barlow twins: Self-supervised learning via redundancy reduction
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Masked autoencoders are scalable vision learners
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Classifier-free diffusion guidance
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Elucidating the design space of diffusion-based generative models
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SARA: Structural and adversarial representation alignment for training-efficient diffusion models
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